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16th Australian Statistical Conference
July 7-11, 2002
National Convention Centre
Canberra, ACT, Australia

Organizers
Statistical Society of Australia Incorporated, Michael Adena - Chair Organising Committee, Kerrie Mengersen - Chair Program Committee

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Parametric and semi-parametric models for continuous capture-recapture studies via a two-step approach
by
Yan Wang
The University of South Australia
Coauthors: Dr. P. S. F. Yip (the University of Hong Kong)

The estimation of the population size is an important problem in ecology, epidemiology, software reliability, and other areas. We consider this estimation problem based on continuous capture-recapture method, i.e. individuals are marked and returned to the population for possible recaptures that may happen at any time. A two-step procedure based on the conditional likelihood is proposed to estimate the population size for both parametric and semi-parametric models. Simulation results are given to illustrate the performance of the method. The method is also applied to a real bird banding dataset in Hong Kong.

Date received: April 2, 2002

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